Burning down the House of Windsor

Leader: The sick man of Europe

As Britons face the worst access to healthcare across the continent, the crisis in the NHS can no longer…

Letter of the week: The Tory Bennites

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Ben Wallace is on high alert after Prince Harry’s Taliban kill-count revelation

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Letter from Ukraine: new year, same war

The Ukrainian novelist writes about ringing in 2023 amid drone attacks.

Jess Phillips’s Diary: Building up to power, Rishi Sunak’s healthcare, and why I would decree beards for all men

After months of turmoil the return to Westminster feels a bit muted – but back I go, well, as…

Prince Harry’s Spare is a deeply uncomfortable read

Throughout the book’s 400 pages runs a single theme: the need for closure after a lifetime of repressed trauma.

Angela Merkel’s failures serve as a warning to British leaders

The former German chancellor’s short-termism created an unsustainable economic model. Will the UK avoid the same trap?

We rely on the NHS to be there for us in a crisis – but it is caught in a crisis of its own

Behind every 999 call is an understanding that someone will help when we are helpless – but that trust…

The “Lady Voldemort” of German politics is poised to unite the extreme left and right

If she starts her own anti-establishment party, Sahra Wagenknecht could alter Germany’s political landscape.

The problem with sport’s endless “greatest of all time” debates

Fans’ fixation on the concept of greatness has become an absurd identity politics.

How the world turned global

Jonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the…

The NS Poem: The Pond

A new poem by Matt Howard.

From Tom Crewe to Caro Giles: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt and a study of conducting by Alice Farnham.

The secret lives of Katherine Mansfield

A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to…

Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish

The Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural…

Tár is a crafty, cryptic take on art and morality in the online age

Cate Blanchett stars as a master composer caught in a #MeToo scandal in Todd Field’s genre-bending film.

Prince Harry’s ITV interview revealed more about posh British men than the tabloids or the royals

This interview was the prerogative of two ex-public school boys. The rest of us, less privileged, can only watch.

Exposing the internet’s false prophets

Helen Lewis’s Radio 4 investigation charts the rise of today’s tech-led snake-oil merchants.

How Janis Joplin set the template for rock’s outcasts

The Sixties icon, who would be turning 80 in January, belonged to an era when personal suffering was viscerally…

Stop dithering, British Museum – give the Elgin Marbles back

Why trustees need to act now. Plus: political interventions at the ENO, the National Gallery and the Tate.

I went to Bali specifically to avoid my family but flew home early just to be with them

For a few days I try to continue with my trip, but I no longer care about water ceremonies…

I can’t stop politicians invading my dreams, but I can control who plagues me on Twitter

It’s bad enough that people I haven’t voted for come to power; do they have to barge their way…

This England: Bunny, I’m home!

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…

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Karen Bakker Q&A: “I am insatiably curious about Earth’s long-term future”

The environmental researcher on the heroism of Simone Veil, AI art, and the unacknowledged threat of noise pollution.